Civil engineer. FRS. Born Scotland into a long line of civil engineers. In London worked on: Metropolitan Railway extension Whitechapel tp Bow and Kew Bridge. Died at his home, The Anchorage, Hartley Wintney.
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Sir Alexander Gibb
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Skempton Building plaques
2018: Eamonn Doyle has written to correct our "east to west", saying that the...
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first public supply of gas in the world
Royal Charter granted in 1812 to Gas Light and Coke Company for street lighting in London. Londonist published a lovely piece about the lamp lights of Victorian London still burning across the city.
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Paddington Station centenary
London terminus for Great Western Railways since 1838. The current station was designed by Brunel in 1854. The underground arrived in 1863 and Paddington was the original western terminus for the...
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William Rankine
Born Edinburgh. Physicist. Worked in thermodynamics. Never married but was musical and wrote humorous songs. Died Glasgow.
2 memorials
Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale
Electrical engineer and social reformer promoting family planning and eugenics. Born in Paris. As an engineer, he invented the phase-shifting transformer, and was co-founder of the Institute of Phy...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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